Constanţa metropolitan area

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Constanţa metropolitan area has been established in 2007 and includes the municipality of Constanţa, the 5 cities of Năvodari, Ovidiu, Eforie, Murfatlar, Techirghiol and 8 communes (Mihail Kogălniceanu, Cumpăna, Valu lui Traian, Lumina, Tuzla, Agigea, Corbu and Poarta Albă). It has a population of 550,000 in an area constituting only 33% of Constanţa County.

Such administrative arrangement existed in an approximative similarity before 1989, when Constanţa Municipality included also the city of Mangalia and the communes 23 August and Limanu, together with all the summer resorts located between 23 August and Mangalia (the so-called "Mangalia Nord" resorts area).

However this administrative reform exists only on paper, nothing being done so far to put this decision into practice (e.g. unified local administration and transportation).

References

• "Anuarul statistic al judeţului Constanţa" - 1986, Direcţia Judeţeana de Statistică Constanţa
• http://www.telegrafonline.ro/1162418400/articol/12931/zona_metropolitana_constanta_oficial_din_decembrie.html
• http://www.cotidianul.ro/index.php?id=9332&art=24670&cHash=a0633c86ec
• http://www.amosnews.ro/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=204521&theme=Printer
• http://www.9am.ro/stiri-revista-presei/Social/55315/Constanta-prima-metropola-a-tarii
• http://www.primaria-constanta.ro/PrimariaConstanta/Machete/Macheta2.aspx?paginaID=201&titluID=6&detaliuID=563